The Best Joe Quotes

Older: You know, there's another girl who works here on the weekends.
Joe: Jen?
Older: Right. Less letters.
Joe: That'd be better.

Older: How's your French coming?
Joe: Good. You gonna tell me I ought to be learning Mandarin?
Older: I never regretted learning French.
[in French]
Older: I know you have a gun between your legs.
[in English]
Older: No? Well, you'll get it eventually. Obviously.
Joe: All right, listen. This is a hard situation for you, but we both know how this has to go down. I can't let you walk away from this diner alive. This is my life now. I earned it. You had yours already. So why don't you do what old man do and die? Get the fuck out of my way.
Older: Why don't you just take out your little gun from between your legs and do it? Boy.

Joe: Kid, cut it out. Don't blow your other foot off.

[first lines]
Joe: Time travel has not yet been invented. But thirty years from now, it will have been. It will be instantly outlawed, used only in secret by the largest criminal organizations. It's nearly impossible to dispose of a body in the future... I'm told. Tagging techniques, whatnot. So when these criminal organizations in the future need someone gone, they use specialized assassins in our present called "loopers." And so, my employers in the future nab the target, they zap him back to me, their looper. He appears, hands tied and head sacked, and I do the necessaries. Collect my silver. So the target is vanished from the future, and I've just disposed of a body that technically does not exist. Clean.

[from trailer]
Joe: Loopers are well paid, they lead a good life...

Abe: [Joe has been teaching himself French] Why the fuck French?
Joe: I'm going to France.
Abe: You should go to China.
Joe: I'm going to France.
Abe: I'm from the future. You should go to China.

Joe: Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy, angry and alone. Laid out in front of him, the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle. Round and round. So I changed it.

[from trailer]
Older: I'm going to stop this guy.
Joe: None of this concerns me...
Older: It is going to happen to you!
Joe: It's going to happen to YOU, it's not going to happen to ME!

Sara: This is a Remington 870. One blast could cut you the fuck in half.
Joe: In half. Yeah, that's telling. You're holding a gun, I say I'm not afraid, so you describe the gun to me. It's not the gun I'm not afraid of.

Older: This is a piece of indentifying information on the Rainmaker. He's here. He lives here now. In this county. And I'm gonna use this to find him. And I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna stop him from killing my wife.
Joe: Fuck you. And your wife. None of this concerns me.
Older: This is gonna happen...
Joe: It happened to you. It doesn't have to happen to me. You got a picture right there in my watch? Let me see. Show me the picture. As soon as I see her, I walk away. I'll fucking marry someone else. Promise. So when I see that picture, that fog inside your brain should just swallow up all the memories, right? She'll be gone. If you give her up, she'll be safe.
Older: Give her up?
Joe: Yeah, give her up. You're the one who got her killed. She never meets you, she's safe.
Older: You don't understand. We don't have to give her up. I'm not gonna give her up. I'm gonna save her.

[from trailer]
Joe: I work as a specialized assassin, in an outfit called the Loopers. When my organization from the future wants someone to die, they zap them back to me and I eliminate the target from the future. The only rule is: never let your target escape... even if your target is you.

Joe: [to Old Joe] Your face looks backwards.

Joe: Time travel hasn't been invented yet, but in thirty years, it will have been. It's gonna be used by these big criminal syndicates...
Sara: You're a looper?

Older: The Rainmaker came out of nowhere and in the span of six months took total control of the five major syndicates.
Joe: That would take an army.
Older: But he didn't have an army. Legend is he did it alone.

Joe: There's a reason we're called loopers. When we sign up for this job, taking out the future's garbage, we also agree to a very specific proviso. Time travel in the future is so illegal, that when our employers want to close our contracts, they'll also want to erase any trace of their relationship with us ever existing. So if we're still alive 30 years from now, they'll find our older self, zap him back to us, and we'll kill him like any other job. This is called closing your loop. Eh, you get a golden payday, you get a handshake, and you get released from your contract. Enjoy the next 30 years. This job doesn't tend to attract the most forward-thinking people.

Older: My memory's cloudy. It's a cloud. Because my memories aren't really memories. They're just one possible eventuality now. And they grow clearer or cloudier as they become more are less likely. But then they get to the present moment, and they're instantly clear again. I can remember what you do after you do it. And it hurts.
Joe: So even when we're apart, you can remember what I do after?
Older: Yes, but this is a precise description of a fuzzy mechanism. It's messy.

Abe: My great-grandfather told my grandfather, "Men are like spiders. It's the little ones you've got to be careful of."
Joe: Don't know I agree with that.
Abe: Yeah? Huh. What the fuck did my great-grandfather know?

[from trailer]
Joe: [to his clients] I'm gonna fix this! I'm gonna find him, and I'm gonna kill him!